QCAD Bugtracker

1) Start with a new fresh drawing
2) draw an object (e.g. Circle)
3) select Layer>Duplicate Layer
4) Proposed name “0 Kopie” is ok, and maybe change color
5) New Layer “0 Kopie” is created but no objects in this copied layer.
6) Select original layer and select Modify>Detection>Detect Duplicates
=⇒ there you find the copy of your layer content twice

Duplicating layer “0” results in duplicate entities on same layer instead of new layer.

See also:
http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=4583

Select entities,
launch the Layer tool: Create Layer from Selection,
change your mind - cancel this tool,

QCAD moves - regardless the cancellation - all selected entities to the active layer.

Text in layer name input with default layer name should be selected by default, so it can be replaced without deleting text first.

Layer dialog shows warning that layer exists when creating a sub layer with a name of an existing top layer.

Create layer ‘A’ Try to create sub layer ‘A’ to parent layer ‘A’

Shortcut Y+, Y- fails for selecting Layer Entities in a Layer List. Letter is ignored and +, - zooms the drawing

I made several drawings for my building renovation project, using Qcad Pro v2.2.2.

I’m used to have a white background and selected adequate colors for my layers : quotations in black or blue, legends in black too etc. When I started QCAD 3rc5, I choose white background in the 1st application launch startup screen.

OK, the background is white. But now I see that ALL “black” items are de facto in white, making them hard to read as you can believe.

Why are the colors I choose for my layers not kept in this QCAD 3 ? I remember that in v2, one of the standard color choices was “Black/white” ; I assumed the actual choice of black or white was somehow related to the then selected background.

Is there a kind of a setting or a miracle procedure to allocate all previous “Black/White” color to pure black ? Or to add a provision in the startup screen to select which Black or White color to assign to the previous “Black/White” color.

I’m facing a hard choice :
- use a non-white background ? Pale-blue could be nice ... but I would still be forced to change my ex-black-now-white layers color. Black or dark background is not recommended in view of eye strain : should I be back to old monochrome VDU ? Printed paper are easier to read with black text on white paper, aren’t they ?
- modify manually all layers which were changed “à l’insu de mon plein gré” from black to white, and in all my drawings ? Not enough time, sure !

Hello

In the Print Preview or Drawing Preferences / Page Settings if I select a Custom size, then landscape/portrait does not really make sense.

For instance, at work we have a laser cutter which uses a printer driver. The bed of the laser is 600 wide by 300 high. When I wanted to cut
something, I created a custom page size of 600×300 and selected Landscape (because it is wider than high)

Strangely, back in the Print Preview, the page is now sized opposite with regards to Portrait / Landscape mode, which was confusing somewhat.

(see pictures attached)

I think that for ‘Custom’ page size in Drawing Preferences, the option of Portrait or Landscape should probably be ghosted

Then, I think that for Portrait / Landscape mode in the Print Preview, it should display the shape most appropriate, rather than just assuming that the document fits the norm:

1. Taller than Wide for Portrait mode
2. Wider than Tall for Landscape mode

I have spent a couple of days banging my head against this.

If I print the attached drawing in landscape mode to my printer, the drawing is not rotated, and the paper only contains ~2/3rds, oriented the wrong way.

If I print to PDF-File, open in gv(1), and change the size field from “Automatic” to the chosen papersize, same thing happens.

If I print to Postscript-File, open in gv(1), change the size field to the chosen papersize, the rotation is correct.

Many PDF viewers will autodetect missing rotations and other such stuff, and you will never notice a mistake like this, but gv(1) does it the “old-school” way and shows the mistake.

The crucial bit of the Postscript output is:

  /pageinit {
  % 210 *297  mm (landscape)
   90 rotate 0.060000000 -0.060000000 scale } def

Something similar is missing in the PDF and the output to the printer.

PS: This is also on FreeBSD, but I doubt that matters at all for the “print to file” operations.

Using Ubuntu GNOME, there are some untranslatable buttons strings on close file dialog. Screenshot attached.

Unter dem Werkzeug “Kreiswerkzeuge” “Zentrum, Durchmesser” bekomme ich leider nicht “Zentrum Durchmesser” sondern “Durchmesser Links Unten”.

Version:
QCAD 3.10

Gruß
Stefan

Es wäre schön wenn ich einen Kreis zwischen Elemente platzieren könnte indem ich die Begrenzung nicht durch Punkte sondern durch Elemente angeben könnte. Eine Auswahl von 2-3 Elementen mit/ohne Radius soll den Kreis Geometrisch korrekt an die Begrenzungselemente anschließen lassen.
Hilfskonstruktionen oder der Umweg über Round RN (was allerdings nur bei geraden Linien funktionieren kann) würden dadurch entfallen.

Laienhaft könnte ich mir vorstellen das die Grundlage für diese Funktion bereits in der Round (RN) Funktion existiert ...

In meiner Vergangenheit habe ich in anderen CAD Programmen mit folgendem Werkzeug gearbeitet was ich für Detailansichten, Bereinigungen oder ähnliches extrem Hilfreich empfand. Wäre schön wenn es so etwas auch in QCad gebe.

Werkzeug: Man zieht ein Rechteck (oder Kreis) über einen gezeichneten Bereich auf. Alles was innerhalb oder außerhalb des Rechtecks liegt wird kopiert/ausgeschnitten/gelöscht und auch direkt an den Linienkanten des auswählenden Rechtecks geschnitten.

Momentan kann ich ein Rechteck für Selektion bestimmen - muss aber dann nach einer Kopie alles manuell trimmen, löschen etc. um nur den gewünschten Rechteckinhalt zu bekommen ...

In 3.21.1, and 3.21.2 a change to a shortcut looses all previous shortcut changes.
This does not become apparent in the current session; a modified shortcut works fine together with all the previous modifications, until you close QCAD.
But-
When you re-open QCAD, the only customised shortcut available is the last one that was changed, every other customised keyboard shortcut has gone back to default.

Windows 10 64 , Gigabyte laptop i7 processor

I am using QCAD/CAM version. Since I installed this version of QCAD that I bought recently, I have a problem with the keyboard settings. On the QCAD application, the keyboard is set to English, while it is set as Swiss French on the system level.

System: Host: manjaro Kernel: 5.10.70-1-MANJARO x86_64 bits: 64 Desktop: GNOME 40.5 Distro: Manjaro Linux
Machine: Type: Laptop System: Hewlett-Packard product: HP EliteBook 8470p v: A1009D12 serial: <superuser required>

         Mobo: Hewlett-Packard model: 179B v: KBC Version 42.38 serial: <superuser required> BIOS: Hewlett-Packard
         v: 68ICF Ver. F.65 date: 08/11/2016

Battery: ID-1: BAT0 charge: 40.1 Wh (100.0%) condition: 40.1/40.1 Wh (100.0%)
CPU: Info: Dual Core model: Intel Core i5-3320M bits: 64 type: MT MCP cache: L2: 3 MiB

         Speed: 1261 MHz min/max: 1200/3300 MHz Core speeds (MHz): 1: 1261 2: 1215 3: 1533 4: 1201

Graphics: Device-1: Intel 3rd Gen Core processor Graphics driver: i915 v: kernel

         Device-2: Primax HP HD Webcam [Fixed] type: USB driver: uvcvideo
         Display: wayland server: X.Org 1.21.1.2 driver: loaded: modesetting resolution: 1: 1366x768~60Hz 2: 2560x1440~60Hz
         OpenGL: renderer: Mesa DRI Intel HD Graphics 4000 (IVB GT2) v: 4.2 Mesa 21.2.3

Audio: Device-1: Intel 7 Series/C216 Family High Definition Audio driver: snd_hda_intel

         Sound Server-1: ALSA v: k5.10.70-1-MANJARO running: yes
         Sound Server-2: PulseAudio v: 15.0 running: yes

Network: Device-1: Intel 82579LM Gigabit Network driver: e1000e

         IF: enp0s25 state: up speed: 1000 Mbps duplex: full mac: a0:b3:cc:22:b0:bf
         Device-2: Intel Centrino Advanced-N 6205 [Taylor Peak] driver: iwlwifi
         IF: wlo1 state: up mac: 8c:70:5a:6b:30:10

Bluetooth: Device-1: Broadcom HP Portable SoftSailing type: USB driver: btusb

         Report: rfkill ID: hci0 state: up address: see --recommends

Drives: Local Storage: total: 238.47 GiB used: 103.47 GiB (43.4%)

         ID-1: /dev/sda vendor: Samsung model: SSD 840 PRO Series size: 238.47 GiB

Partition: ID-1: / size: 233.72 GiB used: 103.47 GiB (44.3%) fs: ext4 dev: /dev/sda1
Swap: Alert: No swap data was found.
Sensors: System Temperatures: cpu: 40.0 C mobo: 0.0 C

         Fan Speeds (RPM): N/A

Info: Processes: 234 Uptime: 2h 42m Memory: 7.64 GiB used: 3.95 GiB (51.8%) Shell: Zsh inxi: 3.3.08

locale
LANG=en_US.utf8
LC_CTYPE=”en_US.utf8” LC_NUMERIC=”en_US.utf8” LC_TIME=”en_US.utf8” LC_COLLATE=”en_US.utf8” LC_MONETARY=”en_US.utf8” LC_MESSAGES=”en_US.utf8” LC_PAPER=”en_US.utf8” LC_NAME=”en_US.utf8” LC_ADDRESS=”en_US.utf8” LC_TELEPHONE=”en_US.utf8” LC_MEASUREMENT=”en_US.utf8” LC_IDENTIFICATION=”en_US.utf8” LC_ALL=

localectl status

 System Locale: LANG=fr_CH.UTF-8
     VC Keymap: fr_CH
    X11 Layout: ch
     X11 Model: pc105
   X11 Variant: fr

Javascript exception

Any time user double clicks on text, an exception is raised in the following script:

/qcad-3.0.0-rc1-prof-linux/scripts/Draw/Text/TextDialog/TextDialog.js

Fix is to comment out the line

      //bug.... simpleText.checked = textDataIn.isSimple();

Is the Japanese translation still in progress or is this a update Problem?

QCad 3.19.2 Professional, 64bit, Linux Mint

Case:
1. Open some drawing with viewport entities on layout block (paper scace). Print Preview mode is “On” automatically.
2. Switch to “Black/White Mode” from toolbar and move cursor on “Viewport” enteties. This entitie is not highlighted. With other enteties all works as expected.
In “Full Color Mode” and “Grayscale Mode” no problems.

For example can try on “flange.dxf”

QCad 3.19.2 Professional, 64bit, Liux Mint

Case:
1. We have drawing with hierarchical layers.
2. When try for example to lock all layers from “Layer List Widget” by clicking to “Toggle lock” at Parent Layer. Then locked are all layers in this group. Same is with “Toggle snappable”, “Toggle plottable”, “Toggle frozen”. All works as expected. But “Toggle visibility” works only on this one parent layer.

I’m not able to open or save a file using the open/save file dialog.
When I change the Look in: directory nothing happens.
Even when I click on My Computer or Chris.

The same applies to saving files.

Regards,

Chris

QCAD start,
Application Preferences:
Units: inch
Dim: Fractions

Changed the Drawing Preferences to:
Units: mm
Dim: Decimal

Design a Dim and it will be created with the mm/Deci settings - as expected,

Select now the Dim - activate the ISO Tool - the try to determine the reference point fails / it’s way of the clicked point and now the produced ISO Projection will use the attributes for DIM’s from the “Application Preferences” setting - hmmmmmmm, not as expected

see below:

http://www.qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=33&t=3009

Projecting text into an isometric plane crashes QCAD - unless the text is first exploded, which is not always an acceptable appearance.

If I use the isometric tools for a text QCAD will keep a construction Box as a leftover ...

'shape.approximateWithLines'"0xc436c88"

When using the ‘Cylindrical’ isometric tool, the projection does not draw to pre-selected layer in the layer list. This is only achieved when changing the layer in the property editor first. Have not tested this with other projection tools.

Implement isometric projection tool

The spacing of the isometric grid is not updated correctly, if the grid spacing is not set to ‘auto’ but fixed values and the isometric grid is switched on using the menu or tool bars:
- Set grid to orthogonal grid, spacing fixed: 1/1
- Set meta grid to orthogonal grid, spacing fixed: 10/10
- Switch to isometric grid using menu or tool bar buttons

Switch grid from orthogonal to isometric.

It would be a nice feature to be able to create an isometric projection of a bitmap.

I am trying to perform an iso projection of an ellipse that represents a circle of radius 10. I get the debugger launch with the following error.

Uncaught exception at /home/kurtforrester/opt/qcad-3.0.0-rc2-trial-linux/scripts/ShapeAlgorithms.js:434: ReferenceError: Can’t find variable: getCenter
434 var arc = new RArc(getCenter(),

Solid fills projected as outlline

ISO project: circles and arcs as ellipses

Arcs in texts (e.g. dimension labels) should be projected as ellipse arcs, not polylines.

Post from topic:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?f=31&p=6613#p6613

Re: QCAD 3 Final
by ralvejd » Fri Jul 20, 2012 9:43 pm

Yes nice news
I’m waiting for a Debian installation

A block with attributes inserted into Model_Space can’t be made completely invisible with the invisible switch (Eye icon) in the block list. It works for entities but not on attributes.

Snapshot release 3.23.0.2

See also:
https://qcad.org/rsforum/viewtopic.php?p=24757

Starting with 3.7.7 I noticed, that some parts in drawings are missing: affected are some circles and (some) closed splines. These were created with earlier releases of qcad3.

Attached a file that has two circles, only one of them showing at first (drawn in 3.8.0); set line-display “screen” (NL command) to see the other (drawn earlier). From the dxf serialization (dxflib or teigha does not matter) I do not see where that should stem from or how to fix this.

At zero degrees there is a little dot though, and also, only certain dashed line-types “hide” the (outer only) circle.

Filed under Ubuntu, not tested on windows etc.

If I use in an area with invisible Blocks the “rectangular selection” in “lower left to upper right” direction for a move/copy, mirror, clipboard etc. action - a warning window appear. Also the reference points of the invisible blocks are visible.

If I use the “rectangular selection” in upper right to lower left direction everything works as expected.

Invastiagte QPainter warnings when running QCAD in -no-gui mode

See forum:
http://www.ribbonsoft.com/rsforum/viewtopic.php?t=1653&start=45

Inverting the current selection is significantly slower than select all, deselect all or other selection tools.

During saving file I’m getting information “Invalid Symbol Table name error”. Problem is already known so i tried to follow the instructions given to other users by you. I’ve tried to change spaces to _ symbol in the layers names or deleting polish specific letters but there was no change. I was able to find out that the problem is related only to four layers named: A_ciany... When I delete these layers I’m able to save file without error message. Can you tell me what’s wrong in these layers? I’ve tried to change names of these layers but problem still exists. Best regards.

Hello,

I have got a dwg file from architect, which I can open, but I get “Invalid symbol table name” when I try to save it. I do not know which software was used to create it.
I have tried to change all spaces and national characteds in block and layers names as advised elswhere, but that didn’t help.

Lp
Tomaž

Trying to build a hatch area sometimes results in “invalid hatch area”. It would be nice if QCAD could give a hint why / where the problem occurs (where is “line too long” or “not closed”).

QCAD3.ini may contain invalid positions for the main application windows, e.g.
[Appearance]
Position.X=-32000
Position.Y=-32000

This leads to an invisible main window after starting QCAD under Windows systems.

The intersection between an ellips and a tangent is not détected.
Demonstration

Using tool split 2.
When clicking on part 1 of the circle only part 1 is removed.
When clicking on part 2 of the elipse part 2 and part 3 are removed. The intersection with the tangent is not found.

Help - Reference Manual does not have any effect on Windows.

I would like to see the installer not stop because there is already a version of QCAD installed. This is the only product that I have used in recent history that requires the prior version to be uninstalled before the new version can be installed.

Please consider removing this requirement and let the installer do an update.

Thanks
Jim

After each update, I add a dot before the ~user/opt folder (and in the program launcher) created by QCAD to unclutter my file manager’s appearance. Would be easy, I think, to make the installer put the program directly in ~user/.opt, and nobody would miss that folder while browsing through daily used files.

And what about installing the program as root, so all users of a computer could use it without personal installs, and only personal setting files created by users would be kept in ~user/.opt/qcam.

Jean-Claude